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As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.

TBF News

The Winter 2019 edition of TBF News highlights efforts to support King Boston that go beyond the Common, and an interview with Eastern Bank President and Boston Foundation collaborator Bob Rivers.

A new series of papers looks at the future of workforce development, and the changes today's programs must make to better serve employers and workers and become Next Gen workforce organizations.

After a year-long artist selection process, the King Boston Art Committee has selected The Embrace, by artist Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group, as the design for a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common.

A new report from researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found that a series of predictive indicators of college success developed by The Boston Opportunity Agenda and its partners are strong predictors of college and career success.

Boston Indicators research on the challenges of getting an accurate census count is cited in this story about the naming of Eva Millona of MIRA (a TBF grantee) to head the state's 2020 Complete Count Committee

Boston Globe art critic Murray Whyte says King Boston's choice of "The Embrace" as the design for a memorial to the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King "performs an admirable balancing act."

The Boston Globe finds a broad positive reception to the selection of "The Embrace" as a design for the King memorial on Boston Common from local leaders.

Maria Garcia of WBUR's The ARTery team talks with artist Hank Willis Thomas about "The Embrace", the winning design for the planned King Boston memorial on Boston Common

This compilation of the four-part Catapult Papers series, with commentary from Paul Grogan and JVS Boston CEO Jerry Rubin, explores the necessary changes JVS and other organizations have made to become "Next Gen workforce organizations" that can support employers and workers and create scalable models in a tight labor market.

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A new report from the Boston Opportunity Agenda looks at how well attendance, GPA and curriculum elements serve as indicators of success for high school students headed to college and careers. The results are promising.

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